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To me, this is nothing short of amazing. This is the first time we are seeing commercial entities working closely with national/international government run space programs. This is a new era for space exploration because this is the first time private money will start rolling into space exploration programs.

The problem with government funded programs is they are underfunded, limited in scope and often have no competition that would push them forward. One of the reasons why Apollo programs were so successful is because Americans and Russians were trying to out do each others and that created a healthy environment for amazing new tech to emerge. The problem today is that no country really cares about space exploration anymore... at least not to the extent they used to.

When you allow free market forces and commercial competition to do their thing, you end up with all sorts of great things that otherwise never would've been. Can all of you imagine where we would be right now if everything computer related was ever researched and invented solely by governmental research programs? Probably somewhere in the 80s/90s, tech wise. If it weren't for Apple and Google trying to make as much money as possible in the phone market, we'd still likely be stuck with black and white phones with mechanical keypads. Same thing is about to happen with space programs. It's the capitalism, competition and free markets that allow for great inventions to emerge. Human greed CAN be a good thing.
Carol Dweck says we should praise effort, not success, if we want people to love challenges and practice persistence.

So, praise effort, measure results, but don't worry about time spent at a desk.
Maybe just read what it says? Third paragraph "“[i]mportation into the United States, without the authority of the owner of copyright under [the Copyright Act], of copies ․ of a work that have been acquired outside the United States is an infringement of the [owner's] exclusive right to distribute copies․”4

How is that ever going to apply to an iPhone - or to ANYTHING sold through an authorized distributor?
It seems to me that having your ID out there is probably somewhat defensive against disappearing. I mean, someone who's anonymous could just be charged with "possessing child porn" and that's pretty much all anyone would hear, goodbye. Imagine if Julian Assange's wikileaks work had been anonymous--he'd be gone already and nobody would know.
non mobile version: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/07/business/measure-results-n...
Unless things have changed recently, sending as an address other than the Gmail account you're sending from results in a tacky "On Behalf Of" clause that displays both addresses to the recipient.
As far as I understand, the UX designer, which would be me, is getting 20% of $10, which is $2. Consider the job took 10 minutes. I make $12 an hour.

Am I missing something?
Uh, we can know exactly how many early mined bitcoins are being kept and how many aren't; it's a matter of downloading the public transaction block and following them. You don't need to "hope" it's not true.

And in either case, I don't see what's the problem with that. People don't refuse to invest in Google just because the founders control the majority of stock votes. As long as one benefits from using Bitcoin, why should we care?
With low RAM like that, what you want to do is math, not UI. That means electrical engineering or number crunching, AFAIK.

OK, so first, it has a lot of I/O ports of different kinds on just one chip. In a lab, you could run lots of analogue knobs and many servos attached to just one chip. This means a lot less hardware debugging, which should be a Godsend.

Another possibility is HPC. You can tile a motherboard with these, cool them all down to -50 very easily and cheaply, and then overclock them as you perform number crunching that you couldn't do with a GPU. After all, these cores are truly independent, and can therefore branch independently, unlike GPU cores. That opens the door to a wide variety of algorithms that aren't GPGPU accessible.
Currently, there's no such message with gmail. However, the "real" email address of the sender does appear in the headers.
If you spend 40 of your 112 waking hours per week doing something other than what you're passionate about, you're wasting at least a third of your life. Unfortunately we've created an economy that compels most people to do this.
This guy is in high school? Amazing!

Either he is going to amazing places, or education is really coming a long way into better integrating technology and open-source.
It only has value for people who value the results of those applications. It's still not an intrinsic value, only subjective.
>By applying an industrial-age mind-set to 21st-century professionals, many organizations are undermining incentives for workers to be efficient.
Every step of the American education system felt like this.
Where does this "On Behalf of:" text appear? I just tested this, and sending an "on behalf of" email to another gmail account doesn't result in this text appearing anywhere in the gmail client. The original mail address appears in the headers under "Sender:" with the alias mail address appearing under "From:". However, if you open the email in gmail and don't check the headers manually, there's no indication it's not from the alias address. Replying to such an email, the "To:" field populates properly with the alias address.
Strictly regulating items whose cost is not significant to the company's bottom line is also a profligate treatment of company resources i.e. employees, it's just less visible.

This whole conversation sounds like one gigantic bundle of cognitive bias to me. People will naturally notice the companies that strictly ration their equipment and are also frugal where it counts, and the companies that give equipment away freely and also spend tens of thousands of dollars on statue repainting, while not noticing the companies that waste money that matters while also maintaining a tight regimen of equipment oversight, or the companies that are frugal where it matters but don't try to strictly control the dispensing of trivial office equipment.
Why would they receive less bitcoins? If you agreed to pay 30 bitcoins, that doesn't change just because the BTC has increased in value. Conversely, when I agree to pay $200 to a lender, he can't tell me after than I have to pay $203 to cover the inflation costs.

What happens in that people make those agreements with the inflation/deflation rates already in mind, and Bitcoin actually has an upper hand since its rate of growth follows a stable pattern, unlike currencies that can be printed at whim.
Hm, it's obviously true that the computer doesn't care what your life's mission is, but I don't know how someone would avoid having that insatiable curiosity dominate their life. I never could, and I only tried briefly because I felt like a freak (and to be fair, compared to the mainstream we are).
FYI - A bit strange, but the actual pre-launch news conference doesn't start until 37:15 into the video on the page this story links to.
Seems like it might actually be better to let employees run free, and just keep a mild watch out. That way, any employees with unethical/stupid tendencies to do things like steal office equipment and resell it will make themselves known rapidly, rather than potentially festering and worming their way into a position of trust before betraying it on a much larger scale.
The time translation is dead on. Just a caveat. In my last job I used to give the actual time estimate and the PM was always frustrated because I was always estimating more that my colleagues. I am a literal person, which always gets me in trouble. So when I hear someone say I need 30 seconds I always reply that the time it'll take you to go back to your desk is already more than 30 seconds. Anyways, when I started giving the coded* time estimates it made everyone happy and I had more credibility with PMs.
Things to Consider when Signing up to do a Craft Fair or Festival
The business of craft shows/fairs/festivals is not an easy one. I have not been doing this for long, but I have quickly learned things along the way that I wish I had known before I got into this business.<p>Here are some important things you should consider before applying to participate in an event.<p>What is the cost of the event? When starting out, I recommend finding events with low booth fees, especially if your products are not expensive (like mine). If your booth fee is too high, you may have a hard time covering your fee and coming away with a loss for the event. Even if you cover your fee, you’ll have made no money above that to cover your time, cost of materials, etc.
I prefer to let people read into the original as much as they choose, since it is fairly clear by the third introductory paragraph that the reporter misrepresented what was at issue in the case.
Does anyone know of a smart card that implements ECC? Accessible from Linux is a plus.

(And in a related issue - does anyone know why smart card deployment in the US is so far behind Europe? Why is it that I need to get a PGPcard from germany and can't find anything comparable in the US?)
I've never heard of Doxing (and I read HN) while "Human Flesh Search" is a commonly understood term amoung young people in China. That said, China effectively has a single, unified internet culture, not the many sub-cultures of the english-language internet.
Last I heard Jack was working 16hr days, 8 at Twitter and 8 at Square. I'm sure it was an exaggeration, but any amount of working day after day at an org gives you the leverage you need to provide vision.

Twitter will be fine.
That doesn't really answer my question. It's still unclear to me where most of Waze's data comes from. Do they really have their own primary dataset? (If they're built on OSM, I fail to see how they can keep their data proprietary, given the OSM license.) Does it contain more accurate data than, say, NavTeq has? More coverage?

The bigger question is still how an acquisition of Waze would fill the shortcomings in Apple's Maps, which is somewhat separate from the question of where the data is coming from.
The hourly rate thing has always bothered me. At my internship at Bloomberg the maximum amount of billable hours per week was 40 and usually they'd expect you to put in 8 hours a day. More often than not, I'd finish an assigned task before the day or week was through or I'd be 'direction blocked' where I would be waiting for approval in a design/architecture decision from my mentor or manager while they were busy with something else.

I would find side projects to work on, a form of '20% time', but I always felt really uncomfortable with the whole situation. Was I expected to forgo pay when there wasn't enough work for me? It was a really weird experience. It wasn't like I was a student working part time, I was living alone in NYC over the summer and had rent and food to pay for.
Of course, anything for eyeballs.
How about Mail.app?
Not going to happen, a completely absurd extrapolation of the 2nd circuit's ruling.
I think product visionary is not a full time job. You don't work out a vision with a pen and paper. Product visions are like good ideas, they always hit you when you are doing something completely different.
Interesting timing. The NYTimes has a piece today on Dick Costolo[1] which mentions Peter Thiel talking about Twitter employees heading home early and how Costolo is staying at work late to get employees to do the same thing.

Even the leading companies/leading people in our industry seem to look at 'hours spent at work' as a signal of overall productivity.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/07/technology/dick-costolo-of...
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And for an (admittedly dated) example of what can go horribly, horribly wrong in some fields: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25

It's ok if your Web app occasionally spits a 500 error or your game crashes once in a while. It's not ok if your radiation therapy machine occasionally flips out and kills people with a massive overdose.
I did the same in high school, and now at uni it is paying off, my work looks great and is at least as easy to write as in a modern word processor except for good spelling and grammar checking. I haven't found a great solution for that yet.

Be sure to keep your tables looking good, look for some resources on it, it's amazing how shoddy even the default tables in LaTeX look, never mind the Excel spreadsheet look everyone seems to go for.
I actually think they should acquire a carrier like tmobile... They always say they want to control "the entire customer experience from hardware to software".
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Page up/down and home/end don't work in Safari. You need to use Command+up/down and option +up/down, respectively. Ridiculous.
I was trying to avoid the term "fiat money" to describe bitcoin, because the term has several meanings, and some argue that bitcoin is not a fiat currency because it is decentralized.

What I mean by "commodity currency" is a currency that is (or is backed by) a currency. Gold would be the obvious example.

>why is it desirable for a currency to be a non-commodity currency?

One of the most important tasks of a monetary system is to regulate the money supply. This can be done via various methods. This can be done with monetary policy as in the case of the US dollar. Or it can be done by leveraging a commodity with a (hopefully) predictable market, as with gold. Or it can be done, as with bitcoin, by creating an artificial process which is provably predictable.

Now, when you use a commodity, you have a problem which is that you are hoping that no new developments will come about that completely throw off your assumptions about the market. If you were using precious aluminum as a currency in 1850, your economy would have collapsed in 1886 when the Hall–Héroult process was invented, causing rapid inflation. That's a supply side problem.

But a demand side problem is also possible. Imagine if indium had been our currency, for example. Indium is a rare element and was rather useless until the latter half of the 20th century. The rapidly increasing demand for indium as a useful commodity would have caused severe deflation.

A fiat currency system works on the assumption that there is no market effect of demand for the money outside of its function as money. In the case of American currency, this assumption is mostly true, but there are small exceptions such as coin collection which have a negligible impact on the money supply (a collected quarter is effectively 25 cents taken out of circulation). If the assumption were rendered totally invalid, the Fed could completely lose control of the money supply.
"By emphasizing results rather than hours, I'm able to get home at 7 p.m. for dinner with my family nearly every night"

And, here, I assumed that by emphasizing results he meant getting home around 5...
I'm an 'architect'. According to my job title. I just program, man. It's not even complicated stuff. But bare competence is apparently beyond the pale for the majority of people.
That's not true. It should either send the email to the recipient or return it to sender. But it should never just drop the message (except for bounces which can be dropped since there is nowhere to send them if delivery fails).
Unions are not universally bad. As with all things it's a matter of dosage. Germany has pretty strong unions, too...
You can keep beating that dead horse, but I ain't gonna ride it. I was on G+ ver early, it's just not what I wanna use.
Same here. But what I did have was real projects to show for and an ongoing interest in languages. The degree question was never an issue.

Like the above comments suggest, get a github account together that clearly outlines your interests.
The reason I like vim isn't so much about editing speed as reading speed. I spend a large amount of time in source code for projects where I only want to check or change some very minor things. Always being a keystroke away from jumping to anywhere in the code turns this from a boring, hellish ordeal, into an quick, exciting exploration of code. Vim also has the perk of being terminal, so it integrates seemlessly with my flow when want to use cmdline tools (also often). Being able to refactor large amounts of code quickly, and with minimal repatition is also fun.

Interestingly, despite my strong prefence for vim, and the fact that I spend most of my time in it, when I am actually writing new code, the only time I hit ESC (caps-lock) is to save.
That's because the American educational system was set up by industrialists to produce a trained workforce, not for some sort of noble philosophical ideal of enlightenment. You'll note that none of the scions of industry attend public school.
"In general, don't waste your time creating A-plus work when B-plus is good enough. Use the extra time to create A-plus work where it matters most."
I wish I did more of this ...
You can set up a different mail server with a lower priority. I run my own server on a VPS, but have Google Apps' SMTP server as backup for those cases, and it's been working fine for months.
I highly doubt this would clear an antitrust check. Considering Microsoft's heavy leaning on Nokia, this just doesn't smell realistic. Optimistic, yeah, and a genius fix for Apple Maps, but pretty unrealistic.
> Give me five more good launches and I'll be able to watch without holding my breath.

Until they put people in them. And then the breath-holding starts all over.
There is a simple fix for this. Gmail can be configured to send via any arbitrary mail server. So you can configure your person account to send via the SMTP settings of your business account.

This leaves no evidence of your personal account, even in the headers.
Hi.

I'm in Australia, I buy my iPhone from an authorised distributor. I then decide to update to an iPhone 2, so I list it on eBay. Someone in the United States purchases the iPhone.

Do I have the authority of Apple to import that phone to the United States? In the absence of explicit terms and conditions, wouldn't this judgment prevent me from delivering the phone?
Waze does not use OSM as stated in its FAQ [1]. It uses TIGER from the US Census Bureau at least in the US [2]. Then it augments the maps with proprietary data gathered by users running Waze software on their phones and from people manually contributing corrections to the Waze data set. Waze has gamified this process by awarding achievements for the number of miles driven with the software running and for contributing corrections (e.g. road changes and mistakes).

Apple's Maps would benefit from buying Waze because Apple would get access to 1) Waze's accumulated modifications on top of TIGER, 2) Waze's software for collecting and distributing realtime changes to maps and 3) the talent of 80 employees that have deep knowledge of mapping software.

The maps from Nokia or TomTom might be better now, but the problem is they may have very inefficient ways of keeping those maps up to date and distributing the updated map data. For example, most GPS units have static map data which get a bulk update once per year. Whereas Google Maps and Waze can get updated maps in near real time along with live traffic information.

[1] http://www.waze.com/faq/#14

[2] http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/
These kinds of setups are designed for people from countries with a low cost of living. For example in India, ignoring the rural/urban divide, the average wage is somewhere between 0.40 to 0.60 USD per hour. In that scenario $12/hour is incredibly good.
I have a client company who uses exchange, it generates that line, instead of the more old school

On Oct 99, 2012, at 3:33 PM, KrakensDen yawped:
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Do you think that is a smart idea? To black list entire netblocks? I mean, can we assume that every person using EC2 for email is sending spam?

It would seem to degrade the usefulness of EC2 for anyone wanting to run their own mailserver.
Genuinely curious... What are the issues you are having with Razor?
Puts are excellent when you have a very concrete timeframe and price target. However, when you lack both, the short is a better trade.

Aside: In your example, if you buy the puts for 30 cents per share, you are paying 24 cents in theta. Now, if you plan on selling before then, you don't pay the full penalty. However, If you plan on holding till expiration, your breakeven is 2.20 (just to get back the premium you paid). Now, if the equity fell to 2.20 and you shorted directly, you'd do far better than breakeven.

The people buying 2.50 weekly options that expired last Saturday would have lost all of their money. They may have been correct in their general directional prediction, but the contracts expired worthless.

I did not have a timeframe and I only had a rough price target. All I knew was that it was going to have to fall hard (2.40 price target) at one point before earnings. I could have bought long-dated puts, but at that time they were far more expensive and even the $3.00 puts were more than .60 cents per share (which would mean I'd just barely show a profit).

As another stark example of the quirks of pricing, check out the Oct20 AAPL puts. Many of the deep out of the money puts lost MTM value because its become less likely that the price will fall far enough. So especially if you come into the trade early, you end up paying quite a bit in theta.
Yes! I happen to know of a company that would be very interested in hiring you. I suggest testing out a few different company cultures prior to graduating. You are clearly smart so I'm guessing there will be few jobs that you can not do. Three years ago, I thought that I would be in med school right now but took a much different route that some people still don't understand. I mentor a handful of MBA students as well as college students regarding this very topic. I would love to talk to you and share a few details regarding the company that I mentioned. Right now you are in a great position to test out a few jobs that you "might" be interested. I highly recommend doing this while in graduate school. I am happy to walk you through examples of how this can be done. Please feel free to email me at bethwoltman@gmail.com if you would like to discuss this in more detail. I included a small snapshot of my background for frame of reference. I don't recommend taking this path but hopefully this will give you an idea of what I am referring to.

My unconventional background: Pre-med/Community Healthcare undergrad, Senior Financial Consultant that participated in taking previous employer through an IPO, recruiter for an international organization, business development for a consulting/advisory firm. I taught myself computer programming which was the foundation for my first software company. I also own another company that is in the computer processing/engineering space but is rather unique; customers include traders, various investment funds, recruiting firms, and individuals in the healthcare industry. I'm also a senior adviser for an angel fund and am just old enough to legally rent a car in the US.

Be open to asking questions and not being good at something. You never know who you will meet and how far it will take you.
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We also have the issue of "digital natives."

In programming, there is a difference in someone who learned computers in college, someone who learned computers in high school, and someone who learned computers in grade school. Then the next wave was kids who grew up with the internet. I suspect it will continue with kids who grew up with touch devices. I don't think there is a similar parallel in other industries.